Out of context. I heard the interview on SAT radio on the way to work this morning. I believe the quote was “I’m not going to call him a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal for this. I’ll leave that to his wife to do.” Her reply to his comment about her having to deal w/ all the kids instead of speaking at CPAC.
Rick also has a lot of children, one of which is a special-needs child. He’s VERY family oriented. He often takes a child with him when he travels. Like Sarah, his children run from college age to a toddler. I’m sure Rick would NEVER knock Sarah for being a mom with responsibilities.
Love Sarah, love Rick. I do find her occasional recourse to girl-power rah-rah and Title IX a bit low-rent and unsophisticated in the true sense. It appears that she doesn't get that the feminist concept—centered on the collecting benefits to the self as a female, rather than selflessly serving God, family, and country—is evil in itself. It's a real limit on her governing judgment, which I hope she outgrows as soon as possible.
For a government to give special protection to anyone, whether it's unions, blacks, employees, small businesses, illegals, terrorists, women, homosexuals, pornographers, or whatever, is theft and tyranny that damages everyone. To be a wise conservative, you have to understand that feminism is just another form of socialism, and instead let people work out their own problems. So far, Sarah has been able to keep her contradictory views from exploding, because people appreciate her wisdom on 95 percent of the issues. But having feminist sympathies leaves a politician without armor against doubt when it comes time to do what is most important for America's survival: to kill off the unconstitutional, multi-trillion-dollar bureaucracy—which not only has been stealing our money through HHS, Energy, Education, Labor, EPA, SEC, FDA, FTC, BATFE, and so on, but is the critical force allowing feminism to continue its demonic war against the family, our economy, our military, God, and . . . did I miss anything?
Queen Isabel of Spain had children while queen, and naturally had a staff to help take care of them. She was a great monarch. But we're not a monarchy. We have no royalty, so there are no women who are obligated to run the state while their kids are young. So republics, despite their egalitarian spirit, are less accommodating to young women in politics than aristocracies. Our strength lies in the fact that we let everyone shift for him- (or her-) self. It's not a big deal, just reality.